A.1.1 Deinstalling the Oracle Identity Management Oracle Home

The deinstaller attempts to remove the Oracle Home directory from which it was started. Before you choose to remove your Oracle Identity Management Oracle Home directory, make sure that it is not in use by an existing domain and that you stop all running processes that use this Oracle Home.

Deinstalling Oracle Identity Management will not remove any WebLogic domains that you have created—it only removes the software in the Oracle Identity Management Oracle Home directory.

Note:

The oraInventory is required for removing instances and Oracle Home. For example, on UNIX it can be found in the following location:

/etc/oraInst.loc

This section describes how to deinstall your Oracle Identity Management Oracle Home using the graphical, screen-based deinstaller. However, you can also perform a silent deinstallation using a response file. A deinstall response file template that you can customize for your deinstallation is included in the Disk1/stage/Response directory on UNIX, or in the Disk1\stage\Response directory on Windows.

Perform the following steps to deinstall your Oracle Identity Management Oracle Home using the graphical, screen-based deinstaller:

Verify your Oracle Identity Management Oracle Home is not in use by an existing domain.

Stop all processes that use the Oracle Identity Management Oracle Home.

Open a command prompt and move (cd) into the IDM_ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin directory (UNIX) or the IDM_ORACLE_HOME\oui\bin directory (Windows).

Invoke the Deinstaller from command line using the -deinstall option. For example:

Select this option to deinstall the Oracle Identity Management system component instances, such as Oracle Internet Directory and Oracle Virtual Directory, that are registered in a WebLogic domain.

If you select this option, the Specify WebLogic Domain Detail screen appears next where you identify the administration domain containing the system components you want to deinstall. The Select Managed Instance screen appears next, where you identify the instances you want to deinstall.

Select this option to deinstall the Oracle Identity Management system component instances, such as Oracle Internet Directory and Oracle Virtual Directory, that are not registered in a WebLogic domain.

If you select this option, the Specify Instance Location screen appears next where you identify the instances you want to deinstall.

Regardless of the option you choose and the subsequent screens that appear, you will arrive at the Deinstall Progress screen, which shows the progress and status of the deinstallation. If you want to quit before the deinstallation is completed, click Cancel.

Click Finish after the deinstallation progresses to 100%. The Deinstallation Complete screen appears.

In the Deinstall Oracle Home screen, you can save a response file that contains the deinstallation settings before deinstalling. Click Deinstall. The Deinstall Progress screen appears. This screen shows the progress and status of the deinstallation.

Click Finish after the deinstallation progresses to 100%. The Deinstallation Complete screen appears.

Click Finish on the Deinstallation Complete screen to exit the deinstaller.

A.1.2 Deinstalling the Oracle Common Home

The ORACLE_COMMON_HOME directory located in the MW_HOME directory contains the binary and library files required for Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control and Oracle Java Required Files (JRF). Before you deinstall the ORACLE_COMMON_HOME directory, ensure that no other Oracle Fusion Middleware software, such as Oracle SOA Suite, depends on ORACLE_COMMON_HOME. You cannot deinstall the ORACLE_COMMON_HOME directory until all software that depends on it has been deinstalled.

Perform the following steps to deinstall the ORACLE_COMMON_HOME directory:

Stop all processes that use the ORACLE_COMMON_HOME directory. To know all the processes that are using ORACLE_COMMON_HOME directory use the following commands:

On UNIX:

ps-ef grep <oracle_common>

On Windows:

Use the Windows Task Manager to identify the processes that use the ORACLE_COMMON_HOME directory.

To deinstall a partner application registered with Oracle Single Sign-On 10g Release 10.1.4.3.0, you must manually deregister the partner application from Oracle Single Sign-On. Refer to the "Reregister mod_osso on the single sign-on middle tiers" section in Chapter 9 of the Oracle Application Server Single Sign-On Administrator's Guide 10g Release 10.1.4.0.1 available at: